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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (776)	12/20/1999 1:23:00 PM
From: Curtis E. Bemis	Respond to of 1782

NDAs-- Yes, they are standard practice. I relate a true story. Two friends for many, many years, in SIValley. One of them leaves employment and goes to work for a start-up. Other suggests they go out to dinner after some time had passed as they had not seen each other for some time. First says, if you sign an NDA first, then we can go out to dinner. Needless to say, the friendship ended. True story and I know them both.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (776)	12/21/1999 12:23:00 PM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1782

>...some were already obsolete by the time we either got to speak about them or by the time they were released. I guess you could chalk this up to both "Internet time" and legacy thinking on behalf of their product teams. This was before many of them 'got it.' appreciate the feedback, frank (and curtis). recalls a semi-recent news item a friend passed along wherein a former employee wanted his one-year employment restriction reduced on the basis that 'Internet time' really does move faster. according to my friend, apparently, the judge -- not Thomas Penfield Jackson -- agreed. on Corvis, here's another field trial; i believe they've previously announced both Qwest and Williams. ----- Corvis and Broadwing Communications Announce Field Trial of the Industry's First All-Optical Network 12/20/1999 Business Wire COLUMBIA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 1999-- Groundbreaking technology from optical networking innovator allows carriers to realize ultra-high capacity in their existing network while providing lightening fast circuit provisioning Corvis Corporation today announced that Broadwing Communications will trial the CorWave suite of all-optical products as part of the carrier's commitment to deploy the most technologically advanced coast-to-coast fiber optic network. The CorWave product family provides the industry's first end-to-end optical network solution and also supports both 2.5 and 10 gigabits per second. It offers the high-capacity all-optical switching, transport and network management required for next-generation, terabit IP networks. The CorWave products will allow Broadwing to transmit optical signals up to 3,200 km without electrical regeneration and provides state of the art optical network management software to provision ultra-long optical paths without field intervention. "Broadwing's pressure points have been and will continue to be scalable capacity, faster provisioning of high capacity circuits, lower cost per bit and flexibility of network design which can support a variety of fiber types," said Rick Pontin, Broadwing Communications President and Chief Operating Officer. "Corvis' proposition addresses these business drivers. We are looking to perform an in-depth evaluation of the Corvis solution during the field trial." "The challenge for carriers has been keeping up with the soaring demand for bandwidth in the most cost effective manner, while providing the highest quality service," said Dr. David Huber, President and CEO of Corvis. "Our innovative suite of optical products allows carriers, with a range of fiber types, to scale easily to several terabits of capacity while dramatically reducing the time required to deliver high speed applications and services." The Corvis solution is exceptionally flexible, enabling communication companies to build a single, unified network to carry all kinds of traffic, including mission critical Internet Protocol (IP), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), high capacity digital video or voice traffic. By delivering high-capacity all-optical switching, transport and network management, the CorWave suite of products provides far higher performance advantages than any other products available today. These advantages include the ability to transport 160 densely-packed OC-48/OC-48 (c) or 40 OC-192/OC-192(c) optical channels without electrical regeneration for up to 3,200 km. This can result in a five-to eight-fold reduction in the number of electrical regenerator sites in a long-distance network. In addition, the CorWave Optical Router transparently provisions and reconfigures both OC-192/OC-192(c) and OC-48/OC-48 (c) service streams, up to a capacity of 2.4 terabits at a service provider switch site. "The Corvis system is designed to dramatically reduce the time required to deliver new bandwidth services," said Glenn Falcao, Executive Vice President of Corvis. "Carriers can now provision coast-to-coast routes in a matter of hours rather than months. That lowers operations costs and eliminates lengthy waiting periods for high capacity circuits ordered by customers--a real competitive advantage in this marketplace."